Harness.



F. SEARLE.

HARNESS.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 25, I914. 1,161,738. Patented Nov. 23, 1915.

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F. SEARLE.

HARNESS.

APPLICATION FILED NOV.25, 1914.

$11,738. Patent-ed Nov. 23, 1915.

2 SHEETSSHEET 2- l/VVEN'TOR Frank 6 6a WZZ- FRANK SEARLE, OF ENNIS, MONTANA.

HARNESS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 23, 1315.

Application filed November 25, 1914. Serial No. 873,931.

To ((ZZ Wit-0722 it may concern:

Be it known that I, Fawn SEARLE, residincat Ennis. in. the county of Madison and State of Montana, have invented certain ne Y and useful Improvements in Harness, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in neck yoke harness for teams and in its generic nature the inventionlias for its object to provide a connor-tion for use in lieu of the ordinary neck yoke which connection is of the lazy-tongs type, whereby the horses can move toward and from each other, and whereby the use of long tugs, whitl'le, trees and the like are eliminated.

The. invention also has for its object to provide a means whereby the horses may be quickly detached from the draft tongue of the vehicle by the driver.

Again. the invention has for its object to provide a harness which can be used not only in connection with draft vehicles but can be used in logging. plowing and other farm work. and in road making.

In its more subordinate nature, the invention provides a pair of bows to extend around the breasts of the horses and be sup ported by the neck yoke straps and a short tug connection with the collar, the bows being pivotally mounted on the extremities of a lazy-tongs connection. that is also pivoted to :1 draft bar which is adapted for connection to the end of the tongue of a vehicle or to which the logging chain or other draft connection may be secured.

in its still more subordinate nature, the invention resides in those novel details of construction. combination and arrangement of parts. all of which will be first fully delines and the quick releasing finger link connection. Fig. 3 is an enlarged detail perspective view of the quick release finger link connection. Fig. at an enlarged plan view of substantially one-half of the neck yoke connection and showing the manner in which the bows inay be turned out, the

turning out movement being limited by a stop. F in. 5 is a cross section on the line on Fig. 4. Fig. 6 is a cross section on the line 6-6 on Fig. i. Fig. 7 is a perspective view showing the two parts of the draft bar separated. Fig. 8 is a detail perspective view of the pivot block. In the drawings, in which like numeals and letters of reference indicate like parts in all of the figures. l is the collar portion of the ordinary double ttllll harness, 2, the upper neclf yoke straps, 3. the short lugs, and 1, the lower yoke or breast straps. All of the foregoing parts may be of the ordinary construction and per se, form no part of "the invention. My invention comprises a draft bar 5 to which-a bridge 6 is secured to form a bifurcation in which the pivot 12 is held.

The draft bar '5 has a hole 7 in its rear end, through which a finger link 8, that is pivotally secured to the draft tongue 10. may be passed. and when the invention is used in connection with a vehicle having a draft tongue. the link 8 may be held in its securing position by a bale 9 that is adapted to be released by a suitable pull cord that extends to the driver. I

11 designates the tongue rings of which one or more may be carried by the eye bolt 12 to receive the end of the tongue. On the bolt 12. there is disposed spacing wash- 'ers. 13 and levers or links 11, the latter being pivoted on the bolt 12 and crossed. 15 are bars pivoted to the links 14 and extending to opposite sides of the draft bar 5 in pairs. Each pair of bars 15. at their outer extremities, are pivoted, by eye bolts 18. to bow blocks 17, the bow blocks 17 carrying the bows. hereinafter again referred to.

In order to prevent the bars 15 and 14 from being pulled into alinement. steps 16 are provided.

l9 designate combined washers and eye the short tug connections 30 are passed.-

One end of each of the tug connections 30 is preferably riveted at 81 to the respective:

bar. 24 or or connected thereto in any other suitable way.

32 designates stops on the bow blocks 17 which limit, the outward movement of the bows, as shown in Fig. 4, to prevent undue separation of the horses.

The draft bar 5 and its carried parts are heldat a suitable elevation by a thumb screw QG-and interlocked connection 27 (see Fig. 7)

.shown in'Fig. 1, and when the horses are pulling for ard, the draft is applied directly through the short-tugs 3 to the bows 22-24, the power being transmitted from 30 the bows through the lazy tongs connections 15-.-l*l: to the draft bar 5 to cause a movement of the same. lVhen the horses are holding back, the straps 2-4 exert the necessary rearward pull on the ncckyoke lazytongs connection l5-ll to hold back on the draft bar 5.

When 't is desired to employ my invention in connection with logging ropes, the usual logging rope hook is hooked into the 40 eye 7 and draft applied in that way.

From the foregoing description taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, it is thought the complete construction operation and advantages of the invention will be clear to those skilled in the art.

lVhat I claim is:

1. In a harness, the combinationwith the draft bar and the harness bows adapted to be supported by the horses; of a lazy-tongs neck yoke connection between said bows and said draft bar so arranged that said bows may be moved laterally toward or from the draft bar and-also back and forth in thc direction of the draft bar, substantially as 56 shown and described.

2. In; combination with the draft bar and bows, a, single lazy-tongs connection between said bows and the draft bar wl'iercby said bows may lie moved laterally in unison to- 60 ward or from the draft bar, and stops carricd by said lazy-tongs connection for restrainingthe separation of said bows.

i-hln combination with the collar, the, short tags, the uppciyneck yoke straps and 05 the lower breast-neck-yoke straps of a double In practice, the harness is supported as merges team harness, bow members, short tug connections between said short tugs and the ends of said bow members, a bow block secured to each of said bow members, a draft bar, a single lazy-tongs connection between said bow blocks and said draft bar, and

means for securing the upper neck yoke straps and the lower breast yoke straps to the aforesaid structure to sustain the same.

i. In combination with the collar, the short tu the upper neck yoke straps and the lower ln'east-neck-yoke straps of a double team harness, bow members, short tug connections between said short tugs and the ends of said how members, a bow block. secured to each of said bow members, a draft bar, a single lazy-tongs connection between said how blocks and said draft bar, means for securing the upper neck yoke straps and the lower breast yoke strapsto the aforesaid structure to sustain the same, and means for securing said draft bar to the tongue of.

a vehicle.

In combination with the collar, the short tugs, the upper neck yoke straps and the lower lireast-neck-yoke straps of a double team harness, bow members, short tug connections between said short tugs and the ends of said how members, a bow block secured to each of said how members, a draft bar, a single lazy-tongs connection between said how blocks and said draft bar, means. for securing the upper neck yoke straps and the lower breast yoke straps to the aforesaid structure to sustain the same, and means for releasably securing said draft bar to the tongue of a vehicle.

(3. To an apparatus of the character dcscribcd. a draft bar, a pair of hows at each side of said draft bar and a lazy-tongs connection between said bows and draft bar, said draft bar including a front member and a rcarwardly extending member pivotally and adjustably secured to said front memher.

T. in an apparatus of the character stated, a draft bar. crossed levers pivoted to said draft bar. bars pivotally ronnrctcd to said crossed levers and rxtcndin; in pairs, one pair to each side of said draft bar, the ends of a pair of extension bars being in juxtaposition. bow blocks. means for pivotally connecting said bow blocks with the adjacent ends of the respective pairs of extcnsion bars, and bows carried by said how blocks. I J y H. in an apparatus of the character stated. a draft bar, crossed lovers pivoted to said draft-bar, bars pivotally connected to said crossed levers and extending in pairs. one pair to each side of said draft bar, the ends ofa pair of extension bars brine in juxtzc positi m. boufiblocks, means for pivotally connecting said how blocks with the adjacent ends of the respeetiyc pairs of extension merges means adapted to secure the aforesaid structure to a team.

9. In an apparatus of the character stated,'a draft bar, crossed levers'pivoted to said draft bar, bars pivotallyv connected to said crossed levers and extending in pairs, one pair to each side of said draft bar, the ends of a pair of extension bars being in juxtaposition, bow blocks, means for pivotally connecting said how blocks with the adjacent ends of the respective pairs of extension. bars, bows carried by bow blocks, said crossed levers and said extension bars forming a "lazy tongs connection, between said bows, and means for limiting the pivotal movement of said bow blocks with relation to said lazy-tongs connection, together with means adapted to secure the aforesaid structure to a team.

10. In an apparatus of the character stated," a draft bar, crossed levers" pivoted to said draft bar, bars pivetally'connected to said-crossed levers and extending in pairs, one pair to each side of said draft bar, the ends of a pair of extension bars being in juxtaposition, bow blocks, means for pivotally'connecting said how blocks with the adjacent ends of the respective pairs of extension bars, bows carried by said bow blocks, said crossed levers and said extension bars forming a lazy-tongs connection between said bows, means for limiting the pivotal movement of saidbow blocks with relation to said lazy-tongs connection, together with means adapted to secure the aforesaid structure to a team, said last named means comprising upper and lower eye'members at the extremities of said lazy-tongs connection to receive the yoke and breast straps of a harness, and short tug connecting straps secured to the ends of said bows.

11. In an pparatus of the character stated, a draft bar, crossed levers pivoted to said draft 'bar, bars pivotally connected to said crossed levers and extending in pairs, one pair to each-side of said draft bar, the ends of a pair of extension bars being in juxtaposition, bow blocks, means for pivotally connecting said bow blocks with the adjacent ends of the respective pairs of extension bars, bows carried by said bow blocks, said crossed levers and said extension bars forming a lazy-tongs connection between said bows, means for limiting the pivaotal movement of said bow blocks with relation to said lazy-tongs connection, together 1 with means adapted to secure the aforesaid structure to a team, and means for securing iitld draft bar to the draft tongue of a veicle.

stated, a draft ban-crossed levers pivoted to said draft bar, bars pivotally connected to said crossed levers and extendin in pairs, one pair to each side of said raft.

bar, the ends of a 'pai r of extension bars being in juxtaposition, bow blocks, means for pivotally connecting said bow blocks with the adjacent ends of the respective pairs of extension bars, bows carried by said bow 12. In an apparatus of i the character blocks, said crossed levers and said exten- S1011 bars forming a lazy-tongs connection between said bows, means for limiting the pivotal connection of said bow blocks with relation to said lazy-tongs connection, to

gether with means adapted to secure, the

aforesaid structure to a team, and means for securing said draft bar to the draft tongue of a vehicle, said draft-bar securing means including tongue rings carried at the front end of said draft bar, said draft bar having.

an eye at its rear end and a releasable finger link connection Between thedraft tongue and said last named eye. v 1 13. In combination with, a team harness of the short tug type, bow members, short tug strap connections between the ends of said bow members and the short tugs of the harness of the respective horse, a draft -member, a lazy-tongs connection between Said bow members and said draft member, and means arranged tos'ecure the neck yoke straps and the breast straps of the respective harness parts to "support said lazy-tongs connection and said bows. i

14:. In a harness, a draft bar, harness bows adapted to be supported by-the horses, a lazy-tongs neck yoke connection between the respective bows and the draft bar, said harness bows comprising two semi-bow members, and means adjustably connecting said members together whereby the space between the same may be increased, or diminished, as'desired.

, 15. In combination, harness bows, bar, and a lazy-tongs connection between said bows and bar, said draft bar comprising two members having lapping ends and means for adjustablynnd pivotally connecb ing said lapping ends"together on a substantially horizontal axis.

FRANK @EARLE. Witnesses:

H. E. STEFFHENS, JOHN WALL.

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